Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On Thursday, June 05, 2008 17:53:01 +0100 Tom Evans
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think that, especially with open source products, there is a large
emphasis on testing in your own environments, and choosing the 'correct'
version of a particular software package is important. For example, at
$JOB, we had a lot of servers running 6.1 as it was an extended lifetime
release, so no point jumping to 6.2, instead we waited for 6.3 to pass
our integration testing.
Not everyone has those kinds of resources. The domain I'm referring to
is a hobby site, run by a husband and wife. They started with shared
hosting and moved to a dedicated box when I volunteered to help with the
backend work. For several years we ran one server hosting dns, imaps,
smtps, mail lists and websites.
Yes, it's not ideal, but when you have zero income you do what you can.
Testing like you describe is out of the question.
We now have the embarrassment of riches of two servers; one for web and
the old one for the rest. The old box is still running 5.4 SECURITY.
The new box is running 6.1. I'd *like* to upgrade both boxes, and the
older box can go offline comfortably for several hours without anyone
but me noticing. But if the web box goes down for 30 seconds, queries
from the users start pouring in.
Come now, even some of the biggest websites on the planet have scheduled
downtime :)
Kris
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